[Feature Request] Fullscreen TUI: separate mouse-wheel scroll from click capture to enable native text selection

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 30, 2026 by dversoza Closed Jul 4, 2026

Bug Description
Title: Fullscreen TUI: forced choice between mouse-click capture and losing wheel scroll

Summary: Since fullscreen TUI mode (tui: "fullscreen") became active, mouse interaction is frustrating with no good middle ground.

Problem:

  • With fullscreen on, dragging to select text registers as a click and triggers menu/option selection, so I can't select text to copy.
  • CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE=1 fixes selection but disables mouse-wheel scrolling, which is also bad.
  • CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS=1 keeps the wheel but native drag-select still requires Shift+drag.

There's no single setting that gives both: normal drag-to-select-and-copy AND mouse-wheel scrolling. I ended up reverting to tui: "default" to get the old behavior back.

Request: In fullscreen mode, let plain drag select/copy text (as the classic terminal does) while keeping wheel scroll — i.e. don't capture left-button drag for UI interaction, or add a setting that does this.

Environment: Claude Code 2.1.196, macOS (Darwin 25.4.0), zsh.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: vscode
  • Version: 2.1.196
  • Feedback ID: c480b8eb-cbe9-466c-8e82-d3c6ac20c45e

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